One Night Stand Up

Meet the Cast:

Drag superstar JACKIE BEAT has been entertaining audiences across the U.S. and in Europe for over ten years with her razor-sharp comedy and hysterical song parodies. Jackie not only warps hits by Britney Spears, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Cher and many others, but she flawlessly...

Miss Coco Peru

Storyteller/monologist Miss Coco Peru aka Clinton Leupp grew up in the Bronx on City Island and got his/her start as a downtown favorite in the cabaret world of NYC. On screen, Miss Coco is best known for her roles in Jim Fall's Fineline feature film, Trick (Sundance 1999) and Richard Day's IFC...

Varla Jean Merman

Varla Jean Merman's alter ego Jeffery Roberson shared the Outfest Film Festival "Best Actor" Award and the Aspen HBO Film Festival "Best Actress" Award with his costars Jack Plotnick and Clinton Leupp for his featured performance in Girls Will Be Girls (Sundance 2003) directed by Richard Day. He...

Ongina

Ongina is most recognized for bringing artistic appeal and a whole lot of face to a show-stealing appearance on Rupaul's Drag Race. Currently, Ongina is delighting audiences across the United States bringing a strong, bold, beautiful, and entertaining character that honors and respects the artistry...

Dana Goldberg

Raised by a wild pack of Jews, otherwise known as her mother and siblings, Dana Goldberg is a force of nature on stage. From Last Comic Standing at the Tempe Improv to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dana is spreading her quick wit and playful stage presence across the world. CURVE...

Ali Mafi

Ali Mafi, Stand Up Comic and student from San Francisco. The worlds only funny gay, fat, Muslim. (The other gay fat Muslims are soooooo unfunny). He enjoy reading...pornographic magazines, watching television...that includes naked people, and long walks on the beach...that end in butt sex. He is a...

Marga Gomez

Marga Gomez, who as been described as a "Latina Lily Tomlin" and as a "Lesbian Larry the Cable Guy," is the winner of the GLAAD Award for Off-Broadway Theater and a Drama Desk Award nominee. She is the writer /performer of five critically acclaimed solo plays and two others that weren't too bad....

Shawn Ryan

Shawn Ryan, is an Actor/Singer/Writer/Producer and is also the founding director of the Young Actors' Theatre Camp alongside his partner, John Ainsworth. Shawn recently won the Manhattan Association of Cabaret's 2009 MAC Award for Best Comedic Performer. His recent television credits include...

Julie Goldman

Julie is an accomplished stand-up comedienne, having toured with "Laughing Liberally," "Puppetry of The Penis," and starred in four solo shows. Julie has been seen on Fuse, Bravo, AMC, Plum TV, and HBO. In season one of "The Big Gay Sketch Show," Julie did everything from saving the lasses of the...

Jason Dudey

Jason Dudey is "The Gay Next Door" that we all know and love. Dudey, as he is affectionately called is that all american guy that just happens to be gay. Every cuddlesack has one. He will make you laugh at life. Whether his mom just bought him something whacky from the home shopping show or he...

Mimi Gonzalez

Provincetown Magazine calls her "Funny, sexy, sharp, positive...a great ambassador of sexual tolerance. Mimi Gonzalez is a comic, life-affirming force." These "One Night Stand Up" installments mark the second set of LOGO appearances for Mimi Gonzalez after All Out Films first featured her on LOGO...

Vidur Kapur

Vidur was selected as a NY finalist by NBC's "Stand Up for Diversity" and performed in Caroline's New York Comedy Festival as part of the "Stand Up for Diversity" showcase. He was also highlighted on FOX news as, "A comedian you want to remember". He was chosen as one of the top four Asian comics...

Trevor Boris

Trevor is a two-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee, has performed at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, the Cape Town International Comedy Festival in South Africa, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, as well as Galas at the CBC Winnipeg and Halifax Comedy Festivals.
Trevor was recently...

Elvira Kurt

A Second City Alumnus, Elvira has had many years of comedic success in the U.S. and Canada, most recently hosting, writing and producing 78 episodes of the Comedy Network's hit late night talk show, Popcultured with Elvira Kurt, a satirical take on the inane and excessive world of pop culture. Elvira has also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and her comedy specials have aired on Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, CTV, CBC and The Comedy Network.

A native of Toronto, Kurt was voted Funniest Female Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards, is a three time winner of "Best Standup Comic" by Toronto's 'Now' magazine, and received a Gemini-nomination for her one-hour comedy special, Big Girl Now. That special also nabbed Gold and Silver Awards at the Worldfest International Film Festival. Kurt also wrote and starred in The Comedy Network series, Elvira Kurt: Adventures in Comedy and her versatility and natural ability as a host and MC have made her the 'go to' choice for the network's many televised events such as its 5th Anniversary Special featuring Jon Stewart, the Cream of Comedy and the March of Dames, to name a few. She's also guest starred on Degrassi: The Next Generation, performed in the Vagina Monologues and has been featured in several comedy films, most recently the award winning Laughing Matters...More! Yet, despite the accolades and mainstream success, Elvira always enjoys doing live shows, especially at Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre for, as her mother calls them, "da gays."

One of North America's hottest college acts, Elvira Kurt has been nominated as both U.S. College Comedian and Entertainer of the Year. In her spare time, Kurt performs at clubs all over North America including The Improv, The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, Caroline's, Comic Strip Live, Catch a Rising Star and Stand Up New York. She's also played The House of Blues in LA and appears regularly in Las Vegas.

No slouch when it comes to writing for others, Kurt contributed to the CBS pilot and HBO special for Ellen DeGeneres and has written for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and various awards shows.

As part of her ongoing modest quest for worldwide comedy domination Elvira is now a dual citizen of both Canada and the U.S. Of course, to her Eastern European immigrant parents all this means is that she can now officially be a disappointment to them in two countries.

Jackie Monahan

Jackie Monahan is taking the NYC comedy scene by storm. Quickly becoming a local favorite at Gotham and Caroline's on Broadway, Jackie took her show on the road headlining at Clubs and Colleges all over the country. When she is not on the road with the LOL tour, she is busy around Manhattan doing...

Amy Boyd

Early on, Amy Boyd stumbled in to her passion for the quirky side of life, and that is how a career in comedy chose her. She has been called "bendable" and "elastic" and her high-energy physicality marks her unique style of entertaining. Taking on everything from cats to vacuum cleaners, this...

Jennie McNulty

Jennie McNulty has been a professional touring stand up comic for many years. She spends her summers performing in gloriously gay Provincetown, MA and her comedy has taken her all over the world, headlining at comedy clubs; colleges; various festivals and events; onboard Olivia Cruises and for US...

Sandra Valls

Fasten your seatbelts! Sandra Valls is a brash, high energy, latina, lesbian comic and then some. She sure packs a punch with her frank, in-your-face comedy performing all over the country in comedy clubs including The Laugh Factory, The Comedy Store, The Improv and at London's Comedy Camp. ...

Carlease Burke

When Carlease Burke rented John Travolta The Cadillac of Mini Vans in the 1995 feature film Get Shorty, she wondered if it would be her unusual name that would land her the high octane jobs in Hollywood. It was right there in the credits -- Rental Car Shuttle Driver, Carlease Burke....